Sermons from January 2021
2 Peter – Destructive Lies
2 Peter 2: Destructive Lies In the past few years, our society has had a barrage of claims about truth and lies. #fakenews. Claims about election fraud. Websites are devoted to verifying politicians’ statements. We are left to wonder, Who is telling the truth? Or more cynically, Is anyone telling the truth? Truth and lies are hard to sort out. Parents know this. A fight erupts from two children. Mom and Dad put on their “Judge robe,” and sit at…
2 Peter, part 1 – A Fruitful and Effective Life
For the next several weeks, rather than a long walk through a single book of the Bible, or a thematic series, we’re going to take time to preach through some of the shorter books of the new testament. Two years ago we hit some of the shortest letters, 1, 2, 3 John – for the next five weeks we are going to cover 2 Peter, Jude, and Philemon. We’re starting with 2 Peter this AM and doing about a chapter…
Stewardship of Work
I. Introduction Today we are going to continue our mini-series on stewardship. We’re going to explore something that everyone in this room participates in, and will participate in — something that is so foundational to our existence that you literally can’t get out of bed without it. You can’t consume food or take a breath without it. It’s something that can be incredibly fun at times and incredibly frustrating at other times. It can result in far-away adventures filled with…
Stewardship of Money
SERMON POWERPOINT Sunday, January 10, 2021 Brad Barrett Stewardship—Money Slavery. What an evil sounding word. We think of slavery in the United States in the 1800’s and before. Oppressive. Brutal. Inhumane. We might also think of human trafficking today. People held against their will for unspeakable evil. People owning people. A verse I shared in my sermon 2 weeks ago has been ringing in my ears every day. Titus 2:14 ESV Jesus Christ…gave himself for us to redeem us from…
The Final Rescue
This Sunday is the second Christmas Sunday! We have four days left! Hooray! 🙂 Christmas is the time of year when we, in a special way, remember and celebrate the birth of Christ, and the beginning of his rescue mission to find and save God’s lost sheep. We carried our Advent series topic, Rescues, on into Christmas as well, because what bigger Rescue is there than Christ’s rescue of us? Last week we talked about Christ’s rescue mission in offering…